{"id":220,"date":"2008-02-16T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-02-16T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:25:20","slug":"day-245-hoi-an-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Day 245 &#8211; Hoi An, Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early to take a bus to the ruins of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%E1%BB%B9_S%C6%A1n\">My Son<\/a>. On the way there the driver stopped the bus on the side of the road with no explanation. I thought maybe a flat tire or engine trouble, but I didn&#8217;t see anyone working on any problems like that. After 45 minutes the bus started up again and we continued. My best guess is we ran out of gas.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving late, I really had to rush to see everything at My Son. It was not very organized. No one told us when we had to get back on the bus, so I had to guess. Also there was a 1.5km walk to the site. There was some transportation, but I didn&#8217;t take it. I didn&#8217;t know what to think of the military jeeps driving down the road. There were no signs saying to get in them. On the way back I did get a ride in one of these old jeeps which was pretty neat. My Son was really in ruins compared to similar sites in Angkor, Cambodia. There were only a few buildings that were intact.<\/p>\n<p>I barely made it back in time to catch a bus to Hue, Vietnam. I took the rest of the afternoon driving to that city where I&#8217;m at right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early to take a bus to the ruins of My Son. On the way there the driver stopped the bus on the side of the road with no explanation. I thought maybe a flat tire or engine trouble, but I didn&#8217;t see anyone working on any problems like that. After 45 minutes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 245 &#8211; Hoi An, Vietnam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}